NASA's Unbelievable Footage of a Comet Hitting the Sun

NASA's Solar Heliospheric Observatory captured this footage of a comet hitting the sun, followed immediately by a massive explosion caused by solar winds, known as a coronal mass ejection. The synchronicity is actually coincidental, but the image is unforgettable.

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